Yue Chen and Liu Yingying walked along the village path and saw two stone lions at the entrance of a courtyard from a distance.
"The Mao Hao family is quite exaggerated. They even have stone lions on the Dahongmen and treat their home as a government office." Yue Chen said and walked forward.
Yue Chen walked up and knocked on the door: "Fellow, are you at home?" Yue Chen asked in a low voice.
"He should live by himself, there should be no one around now," Liu Yingying said.
Squeak! The door of Dahongyuan was not locked, but it opened in response to the sound.
Looking at the ajar door, Yue Chen and Liu Yingying were a little stunned.
"Uh..." Yue Chen licked his lips.
"Hey, don't mess around." Liu Yingying was a little cautious.
"Well... we were just passing by here while traveling and saw that this courtyard happened to be open. We thought it was a tourist attraction, so we went in to have a look. It should be fine, right?" Yue Chen forcibly made up a lame excuse.
"Isn't this good..." Liu Yingying was a little hesitant.
"Come here! It's not you who came in. I happened to meet you while I was taking you on a trip." Yue Chen grabbed Liu Yingying, took her into the courtyard, and then closed the courtyard door.
Yue Chen knew that even if he found enough excuses for her, Liu Yingying still needed some psychological preparation for doing these things that violated the rules, so he checked from the yard first.
Mao Hao's home is just a ball of suet, only the exterior is bright and the inside of the yard can only be described as simple.
Even though Yue Chen hadn't stepped into the inner room yet, after just walking around the tile-roofed house in the yard a few times, he had a clear idea of the layout of the house.
While Liu Yingying was still struggling with herself, Yue Chen had already almost surveyed the courtyard. It wasn't because Yue Chen was so good, but because the courtyard was really unobstructed. Apart from the inner room, there were only a few bundles piled in the corner of the courtyard.
firewood.
Yue Chen also hesitated before entering the inner room. He barely entered the courtyard and could be said to have stumbled in by accident while traveling.
If you enter the inner room, even if you find clues, without a search warrant, you are still breaking into a private house. What's more, if nothing valuable is found, it will be even harder to explain.
Yue Chen carefully sorted out all the details in his mind. Standing at the door of the room, Yue Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.
Yue Chen did not enter the inner room, but went straight to the firewood in the corner of the yard.
Liu Yingying couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Yue Chen didn't open the door and entered the inner room, and followed Yue Chen to the corner of the yard.
"What's wrong?" Liu Yingying saw Yue Chen's expression was a little serious.
"Do you think there's something wrong with this bundle of firewood?" Yue Chen thought.
"What's the problem?"
"I just walked around the yard twice and saw that their kitchen is in the southeast corner of the yard, but this bundle of firewood is farthest from the northwest corner of the kitchen, and also far from the south gate. Is there a rain shelter? Obviously
Nor is it a temporary storage location.”
"So, either Mao Hao likes to cause trouble for himself, or there is something wrong with this bundle of firewood." Yue Chen gave his own judgment.
"If there is any problem, just look through it and you will know." Liu Yingying was no longer confused about whether to act without authorization.
"Okay, take a photo first." Yue Chen said and took out two disposable gloves from his pocket.
"Why are you still carrying this?" Liu Yingying didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Don't you always wear gloves when investigating crimes? If I have those kind of gloves, I can just use these from the kitchen instead, right?" Yue Chen took out another pair and handed them to Liu Yingying.
Although Liu Yingying looked disgusted, she still put on the transparent disposable gloves.
There were seven or eight bundles of firewood piled in the corner. Yue Chen picked them up one by one and put them aside. Then an empty corner appeared in front of the two of them.
"This..." Yue Chen scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Hurry up and get back to your original state." Liu Yingying actually felt a little disappointed.
"It shouldn't be!?" Although Yue Chen was unwilling to give in, he did not stop moving his hands and prepared to put the firewood back one by one according to the original approximate position.
"Huh?" Yue Chen was suddenly startled while carrying two bundles of firewood.
"What's wrong? Did it hit your hand? Did it reach your waist?" Liu Yingying asked quickly.
"Eh?" Yue Chen did not answer, but weighed another bundle of firewood in his left hand.
"There's something wrong with this bundle of firewood!" Yue Chen said very firmly, leaving the firewood in his left hand still on the ground, as if he had discovered a new world.
"Are you sure?" Liu Yingying looked at the bundle of firewood that didn't look much different.
"This is a junior high school physics question. The weight of this bundle of firewood is similar to the other bundles, but obviously the volume of this bundle of firewood is much smaller, which means that the density of this bundle is much higher. So this
There should be something else mixed in a bundle of firewood." Yue Chen talked eloquently, and he was talking about quality rather than weight.
As Yue Chen untied the firewood.
clank-
Two sounds of metal falling to the ground were heard, and a machete and a small wood-chop ax fell out. There were obviously red marks on the wood-chop ax.
"Ah?" Liu Yingying didn't expect to find such explosive evidence. The situation was no longer within her and Yue Chen's control, so she immediately called and reported to Wang Yuanhe.
"Captain, Tuanda Village, Mao Hao's family has made a major discovery, please come quickly for support."
"What big discovery?"
"A suspected murder weapon was found in Mao Hao's yard."
"Okay, please pay attention to your safety, I will bring someone here right now."
"Are you reporting it now?" Yue Chen also stood up, not daring to touch any more evidence.
"It will only make it more troublesome for us to bring this kind of thing back."
"I mean, these two things may have nothing to do with Conlan." Yue Chen blinked after finishing speaking.
"Uh..." Liu Yingying was speechless.
After all, the autopsy report showed that Conlan drowned and there was no obvious trauma. However, the visual impact just now was too great, and Liu Yingying subconsciously made an inference of guilt.
"It's okay, this should be human blood. If not, just say that you have been under too much pressure at work recently." Yue Chen hurriedly made a good excuse for Liu Yingying.
It takes nearly two hours to get from the city bureau to Tuanda Village. During these two hours, Yue Chen and Liu Yingying had a very hard time. Whenever there was any disturbance at the door, the two of them would become nervous.
They didn't know how long they had to wait. Suddenly Liu Yingying's phone rang, making them excited.
Liu Yingying jumped up and quickly took out her mobile phone. She was about to hang up the phone immediately. After a closer look, she found that it belonged to Wang Yuanhe.
"team leader."
"Xiao Liu, are you still there?"
"Yes, I will stay at the scene."
"We are already nearby. We will be there in less than ten minutes."
"Okay, I'll wait for you all here." The stone hanging in Liu Yingying's heart finally fell to the ground.
"However, I want to ask you, who approved your action this time?" After Wang Yuanhe asked, he hung up the phone without waiting for Liu Yingying's answer.